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1857-1907 

CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

OF ITS INCORPORATION 

FEBRUARY 7, I907 



ADDRESSES BY 

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ROLL OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 




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1857-1907 

CELEBRATION OF THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY 

OF ITS INCORPORATION 

FEBRUARY 7, 1907 

ADDRESSES BY 

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ROLL OF OFFICERS AND MEMBERS 




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CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

.SEMI- CENTENNIAL ANNIVERSARY 
February 7, 1907 



THE fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the Chicago 
Historical Society was marked by a special meeting of the 
5 Aery and a reception in its Building, on the evening of 
Thursday, February 7, 1907. Some two thousand invitations 
had been sent to its members, friends, and correspondents and 
more than four hundred persons were present at the exercises. 

President Head had invited the following ladies to represent 
the Society as hostesses, and assist him in receiving the guests : 

Mesdames Cyrus Bentley, Anita McC. Blaine, T. B. Blackstone, 
William Blair, Eliphalet W. Blatchford, Joseph T. Bowen, W. J. 
Calhoun, Kate S. Caruthers, Charles H. Conover, Frederick A. 
Delano, Thomas Dent, Jacob M. Dickinson, Marshall Field, 
Frederick M. Gilpin, John J. Glessner, Charles F. Gunther, Car- 
ter H. Harrison, Annie M. Hitchcock, Gurdon S. Hubbard, 
Charles L. Hutchinson, George S. Isham, Harry Pratt Judson, 
Chauncey Keep, Samuel H. Kerfoot, Bryan Lathrop, John 
Mason Loomis, Frank 0. Lowden, Franklin MacVeagh, Ezra B. 
McCagg, Nettie F. McCormick, Cyrus H. McCormick, Edward 
G. Mason, George Merryweather, LaVeme W. Noyes, Honore' 
Palmer, Ferdinand W. Peck, Eugene S. Pike, George M. Pull- 
man, John S. Runnells, Martin A. Ryerson, Otto L. Schmidt, 
Orson Smith, James M. Walker, Norman Williams, Man,- J. Wil- 
marth, John P. Wilson; and Misses Katharine Arnold, Elizabeth 
Head, Mary L. Newberry, Elizabeth Skinner, Frederika Skinner, 
and Helen E. Snow. 

The President and those of the above named ladies who were 
in attendance stood in the entrance from the Main Hail to the 
Gilpin Library and received the guests who were formally pre- 
sented by members of the Executive Committee. 

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1 82 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

When the hour arrived for the exercises of the occasion, the 
audience assembled in the Lecture Hall in such numbers as to 
exhaust its seating capacity and many gentlemen stood through 
the entire programme. 

On the stage beside the President were Messrs. Ezra B. 
McCagg, Elijah Kent Hubbard, and Edwin Doak Mead. Presi- 
dent Head stated to the audience that Mr. McCagg was the sole 
surviving Charter Member and Incorporator of the Chicago His- 
torical Society; that Mr. Edwin D. Mead of Boston was the Vice- 
President and a working member of the Massachusetts Historical 
Society; that Mr. Hubbard was one of the first white children 
born in Chicago. He also announced that the Executive Com- 
mittee had some weeks since invited Governor Deneen to be 
present and deliver an address, appropriate to the occasion, and 
read a letter from the Governor expressing his regret that impera- 
tive official duties had at the last moment obliged him to remain 
in Springfield, and extending to the Society his congratulations on 
its semi-centennial anniversary and wishing it prosperity for the 
future. Mr. Head also read a congratulatory letter from Daniel 
C. Roberts, president of the New Hampshire Historical Society. 

The formal exercises were then opened by President Head 
who spoke as follows : 

Fifty years ago, a body of the early citizens of Chicago inter- 
ested in collecting and preserving the records of the early 
exploration and settlement of the State, having procured from the 
authorities a proper charter for the Chicago Historical Society, 
met and perfected the organization of the Corporation. The 
fifty years which have passed since February 7, 1857, have been 
for the Society, periods of modest prosperity as well as of 
discouraging storm and stress. Twice have its buildings and 
collections been destroyed by fire, and many books and 
manuscripts of great value, irretrievably lost; yet to-day, at the 
beginning of its second half-century, the Society is in this beau, 
tiful fire-proof building, with more than one hundred thousand 
volumes, manuscripts, and memorials of the early days, and 
is entirely free from debt. 

Of the early citizens who were the founders and incorporators 



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of the Society, but one survives, Mr. Ezra B. McCagg, a man who 
for more than fifty years has been held in high esteem and honor 
by the people of Chicago. He has consented to read to us, this 
evening, a paper containing various incidents connected with the 
early life of the Society, and prior to the great fire of 187 1. No 
introduction to a Chicago audience is needed for Mr. McCagg. 

Mr. McCagg's address was as follows : 

In the gospel according to Saint Luke, it is recorded that our 
Saviour said to his disciples in one of his parables: "I say unto 
you, though he will not rise and give because he is his friend, yet 
because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as 
he needeth." It was forcibly brought to my mind when your 
President did not permit me to say "No" after an expressed 
unwillingness to occupy some of your time this evening, the 
fiftieth anniversary of the foundation of this Society, with some 
account of its early history. If the repetition of a twice-told tale 
wearies you till the chairs seem hard, let his be the blame. 
I would have avoided it, for it is not altogether a pleasure. The 
result of what was so many years ago begun is before you; this 
fine building, its books and manuscripts, its portraits, these last 
perpetuate as far as may be done on canvas, the actors, their 
faces recall their respective doings, and the promise of what may 
yet be, yet these portraits are prints of foot-falls in the march of 
time; one actor the less, one more break in the ranks, till the 
place has some pain to the survivor who will not down. 

The beginning, the very beginning, and it is to this I am to 
confine myself, was small. A few gentlemen, Mr. Mason writes, 
twelve in- number, by whom requested, I do not recollect, prob- 
ably by the Rev. William Barry, met at the office of Messrs. 
Scammon and McCagg in the building, then standing on the 
northeast corner of Lake and LaSalle streets, April 3, 1856, to 
consider the idea of forming a Historical Society in this city for 
the collection and preservation of historical material relating 
more particularly to Chicago, but also to the State, which was 
every day being made and lost, there not being anybody caring 
for its preservation. They were busy men, every one of them, 
as indeed was everybody in Chicago at that time. The burden 



184 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

of material life was heavy, a city was building, sewage and water 
systems must be had, not here and there one, but many, streets 
were to be laid out, roadways and sidewalks made, school-houses 
and churches, warehouses and dwellings were to be built, more 
bridges were needed; the city itself was being raised from the 
mud; there was a whole system of municipal government to be 
substantially reorganized to keep pace with so rapid a growth all 
at once; and it must all the time be looked to that neither 
Milwaukee, nor St. Louis, nor Cincinnati, nor any other place, 
far or near, took away any one of the advantages which our loca- 
tion offered us. They were not men of wealth, as wealth was 
measured fifty years ago; there were few wealthy men here then, 
though some of them afterward became so; nor did they depend 
upon their daily work to live; but it was the day of small things, 
comparatively, and a return was acceptable. I do not recollect, 
certainly, who they were, but one can guess with almost absolute 
sureness as to many of them, as one name after another appears 
later in this account. 

This meeting of April, before mentioned, was followed by 
another later in the same month, the 24th, and an organization 
was had, William H. Brown being the first president, and 
William Barry recording secretary and librarian. Mr. Brown 
was an old resident of the State. He came to Illinois in 
December, 1818, the population of the State at that time was not 
over 40,000, settled in Kaskaskia, then the seat of government, 
choosing Illinois because it had that summer adopted a free 
government, and purchased a one-half interest in the "Illinois 
Intelligencer," which paper dated back to 18 15, and was the first 
newspaper published in the Territory. In 1823, he was at that 
time living in Vandalia, he did valiant work with pen and voice 
on the side of the Free -State party when an effort was made 
looking toward and intending the adoption of a new constitution 
permitting slavery. His activity in this direction did not increase 
his popularity in that region and an incipient effort was made to 
mob his paper. In 1835, ne removed to Chicago. These facts 
are not, perhaps, quite germane here, yet they give some descrip- 
tion of the man. The contest he had made was as close and 






SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION. 185 

impassioned as it was momentous. Suppose that at the com- 
mencement of the civil war, Illinois had been a slave-state, 
supporting the secession column, the whole machinery of the 
state government in the hands of the South! Knowing him well, 
I linger about his name, because of the early stand he took 
which but foreshadowed in its regard for the right every action of 
his life. 

These April meetings were the beginning. On February 7, 
1857, a charter was had and the embryo attained legal existence. 
Listen to the somewhat grandiloquent terms of its Preamble : 

"Whereas, it is conducive to the public good of a State to 
encourage such institutions as have for their object to collect and 
preserve the memorials of its founders and benefactors, as well as 
the historical evidences of its progress in settlement and popula- 
tion, and in the arts, improvements and institutions which distin- 
guish a civilized community, and to transmit the same for the 
instruction and benefit of future generations; 

Be it enacted," etc. 

I will name the incorporators in the order named in the act: 
William H. Brown, William B. Ogden, Mahlon D. Ogden, 
J. Young Scammon, Mason Brayman, Mark Skinner, George 
Manierre, John H. Kinzie, James V. Z. Blaney, Isaac N. Arnold, 
Edward I. Tinkham, J. D. Webster, W. A. Smallwood, VanH. 
Higgins, N. S. Davis, C. H. Ray, S. D. Ward, Franklin 
Scammon, William Barry, and Ezra B. McCagg. 

Most of them, doubtless, were present at, and all of them in 
sympathy with the object of the two meetings in April. This is 
but a list of names offering little information to the generation of 
to-day. It would be a satisfaction to speak more in detail of at 
least such of them as I knew more intimately. The time is all 
too short. They were household names. Mr. Mahlon D. 
Ogden was a partner of Mr. Arnold and at one time Probate 
Judge. John H. Kinzie, and here I hesitate for a moment, loth 
to pass on without some words. If anything is said there should 
be much. James V. Z. Blaney, able physician, ever in the search 
for some later way of alleviating disease and suffering. J. D. 
Webster, a graduate of West Point, and afterward a gallant soldier 
who, at the bloody battle of Pittsburg Landing, when, toward the 



1 86 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

close of the first day the confederate troops had driven our army 
nearly to the river, by parking our artillery along the bank 
checked their advance till night came; and the next morning, 
Buell and victory. Dear friend and neighbor, Edward I. 
Tinkham. Dr. N. S. Davis who afterward, a stranger from far-away 
Chicago, when he stood before an audience of world-assembled 
doctors in London captivated them. He has just gone, at a ripe 
old age, actively employed up to the very end, crowning a life- 
service to his fellow-men. 

Of the twenty charter members, thirteen were residents of the 
North Side; then, perhaps, the most popular quarter of the city 
for the better class of dwellings. Mr. Arnold's pleasing house 
was on the spot where we now are, and the others, I think, 
almost all of them, lived within a stone's throw. 

Mr. William B. Ogden, at the time of its organization and 
before its charter, permitted the Society the temporary use of a 
room on the southwest corner of Clark and Lake streets till some 
other arrangement should be made. Shortly after, Mr. Julian S. 
Rumsey gave it more comfortable quarters in a building erected 
by him on the west side of LaSalle street between Lake and 
Randolph, where it remained a couple of years, and from there it 
came to this side of the river to the northeast corner of North 
Wells and Kinzie streets, to rooms set apart for it by Mr. Walter 
L. Newberry. Collections in the beginning were slow. A few 
pine shelves were all that were needed for a time, and every gain 
was welcomed. Lieut. -Gov. William Bross, though this was later, 
gave it at one time Lord Kingsborough's "Mexico," a colored copy, 
some three or four folio volumes, a stately set indeed. They 
were spread on a table and Mr. Barry's bright eye gleamed as he 
displayed them, perhaps as proud of his new acquisition as either 
James Lenox or John Carter Brown would have been of a newly 
acquired illuminated missal, the probable work of Fra Angelico, 
or to come nearer home, a then just-discovered, hitherto-unknown 
volume of "Jesuit Missions" which had then lately passed into 
the latter's possession. 

I must look back for a moment to more thoroughly emphasize 
some of these men. The project to build a railroad from 



SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION. I 87 

Chicago to Galena was not new but it was moribund. It was 
sought to revive it with Mr. Ogden as president, and build the 
road. This was the commencement of an era in the railroad 
history of this State, almost in the railroad history of the United 
States, for it was, perhaps, the first time a railroad was built in 
advance of population instead of waiting till a present population 
needed it. 

I remark in passing that I have heard that at the time this 
road was chartered, the Galena members of the legislature refused 
to vote for it unless the name of Galena was given first place — 
Galena and Chicago Union, not Chicago and Galena Union. 
Galena was the more important place. To make a commence- 
ment, Mr. Ogden, with Mr. Scammon and perhaps others, gave 
a personal note for $20,000. A banker here, though one of the 
directors, refused to loan to the road that or any amount. He 
would loan to them, individually, but not to the corporation. 
The amount is amusing in the light of to-day. It was on a trip 
to urge subscriptions for stock that Mr. Scammon used the figure, 
"The Iron Horse will yet slake his thirst in the Fox River." 
The Fox was less than forty miles away, and the western terminus 
of the road was on the open prairie, and so might one say was 
the eastern, for the common council had refused it entrance into 
the city. It seemed rather a vainglorious boast. The Chicago 
and Northwestern Railroad Company, of which the Galena was 
the progenitor and is now one of its divisions, operates to-day 
over seven thousand four hundred and fifty miles of road, has 
36,699 employe's, and its annual pay-roll exceeds twenty-three 
millions of dollars. 

The late Judge H. W. Blodgett, and not anybody knew 
Chicago and its people better than he, in a public address styled 
Mr. Ogden "The man who made Chicago." I think this was 
not quite fair. Mr. Ogden was a man of extraordinary force, 
character, ability, and push; he saw and foresaw with great 
insight; he can scarcely be given too much praise, but many men 
in those days were helping to make Chicago; some of them I 
mention here. I recollect well Mr. Scammon riding, day and 
night, through rain and dust and storm and heat, appealing to, 



1 88 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

urging the farmers along the line of the proposed road to 
subscribe for stock and pay the first instalment, $2.50 a share, as 
did Mr. Isaac N. Arnold, and to a lesser degree John B. Turner 
and others. The road they traveled, figuratively speaking, was 
not a level one. Money was scarce, the population sparse, there 
was some indifference, some dissent, one innkeeper denouncing 
railroads as undemocratic institutions that would ride rough shod 
over the people and grind them to powder. All the people 
wanted, said he, were good, common roads upon which every- 
body could travel. Some of the subscriptions were paid at the 
end of a law suit. Mr. Brown was one of the directors and at 
one time president. 

Chicago was not much more than a frontier town; there were 
not many houses north of Huron street on the North Side or 
south of Harrison street on the South Side, with a narrow line of 
buildings along the west bank of the river. The prairie with its 
carpet of flowers came almost to our doors. 

All the gentlemen I have named were at the front and were 
charter members of the Society, as were Judges Skinner and 
Manierre. They were all mainsprings in our city, makers of 
Chicago, all basy men, very busy, more to be done an hundred 
fold, than there were men to do. I mention them by name and 
speak of their surroundings, as I should be glad to speak of 
others whom I have not named, incorporators and members of 
the Society, did time permit, because, then and for many years 
after, they gave to it, to its beginnings and its support, not of 
their leisure, but of their already overburdened time, without any 
idea of personal return; they believed it for the best interest of 
the community of which they formed part; and they should have 
foremost place in a meeting in this room on an occasion like this. 
Seen now in the distance, it looks like a small matter. It took 
time. The same men who helped to build the railroad with their 
energy and self-sacrifice were behind the Historical Society. 

Chicago during these years was in a condition of ferment. An 
amusing anecdote is told, typical of affairs as they then were. A 
citizen of the land of Thoreau, of quiet Pawtucket or Nantucket, 
intending to move with his family to this city, called on a builder 



SEMI-CENTEN1AL CELEBRATION. I 89 

here, this was about the middle of May, and said that he was 
intending to remove to Chicago, had bought a lot, and wished, if 
possible, a house, of which he had the plans with him, to be 
ready on his arrival which would be about the middle of October 
then next, and that he very much hoped that this was feasible. 
The builder, hesitating for a few moments, with his finger to his 
forehead, "The native hue of resolution sicklied o'er with the 
pale cast of thought" as if considering possibilities said, "This 
is Thursday. I have an elevator to put up tomorrow, Friday; 
and have promised a Presbyterian church for Saturday. I will 
build your house on Monday." The travesty of facts to one who 
was then here and has a recollection of the times, makes this 
broad farce amusing. Absolutely there are some true lines in the 
caricature. 

And foremost among them was Mr. Barry, the Rev. William 
Barry, a Unitarian clergyman in delicate health and because of 
it without a charge, an enthusiast, the very embodiment of a 
collector of historical matter. No pamphlet so small or so appar- 
ently valueless but it was worth preserving if it but contained, not 
what was then, but what would sometime be worth something, 
historically. No elderly man who knew personally some histor- 
ical incident but he would have him commit it to paper or, if he 
would, to write the history of his times, and many apparently 
ephemeral publications proved sometimes valuable almost imme- 
diately. He once, not many years later, asked the Galena and 
Chicago Railroad Company, or its successor, for a bound set of 
its reports. It had already become a leaf in the history of 
western progress. The answer came, that with great regret the 
road had to admit that it had not a full set; two years or more, 
as I recollect, were lacking. He was able to supply them. He 
had cared for them, year by year, as they appeared. He did 
most of the active work for years, the earlier ones, gratuitously, 
later, but after some years, for a small, very small compensation 
till want of strength required him to stop. Writing to Mr. Mason, 
president of the Society, a few years ago in response to a request 
from him for some information about Mr. Barry, I replied, and I 
can but repeat it here, "he attended to the correspondence, 



190 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

unpacked the boxes, was most earnest and untiring in soliciting 
exchanges, made up the packages to be sent in return, kept the 
records including the minutes of meetings, went day by day in 
summer and in winter, in sunshine and in storm to the post-office 
for the mail, and carried in his arms, or even if very bulky on his 
back, heavy bundles of papers and books to the Society rooms." 

The removal to the Newberry Building had stimulated move- 
ment and the collection became varied and though fragmentary, 
interesting. At the Society's third annual meeting, its library 
numbered over 28,000, nearly 29,000 books, pamphlets, maps, 
and manuscripts, and this was despite of the panic of 1857. It 
was attracting attention and was receiving many gifts. Meetings 
were held at residences of members and the Society's affairs were 
discussed over a plate of ice-cream and a piece of sponge-cake 
for refreshments. Mr. Barry was indefatigable. He traveled 
widely throughout the State, and always with an eye single to his 
dominant purpose, expressed in the original constitution, that the 
object of the Association was to encourage historical inquiry, and 
spread historical information especially within the State of 
Illinois; to collect a library and manuscripts; to solve historical 
doubts. The mound builders and their work interested him and 
he had collected much information relating to them, he inter- 
viewed the State's pioneers and gathered facts from their personal 
history and preserved it, stimulating the writing of papers by the 
Society's members. I recollect his making an earnest effort to 
have some member write the history of Mason and Dixon's line. 

The rate of increase became more rapid each succeeding year 
and the two rooms given it by Mr. Newberry soon became 
crowded; pamphlets jolted newspapers and they alike crowded 
the books. Larger quarters were a necessity; the library had 
grown over two thousand numbers in a year; but, though the 
panic of 1857 had somewhat expended its force, it was not a 
very propitious time for raising money for an organization which 
only indirectly appealed to the public. All the same, the effort 
must be made. A committee was appointed on January 9, 1864, 
a subscription for a lot and building was started and though it 
dragged somewhat, the committee in about a year reported 



SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION. 191 

$30,000 subscribed and the purchase of the lot where this 
building stands. A plan was adopted and a supposedly fire-proof 
building erected. Mr. Mason reports that, hard pressed for 
money, this committee set an example to others in similar posi- 
tions by advancing $15,000 from their own pockets. Shall I 
name them? George F. Rumsey, Edwin H. Sheldon, and for the 
third, well, as for the third I may recall the incident in "Ivanhoe" 
where Brian de Bois Gilbert is telling Cedric the Saxon of a 
tournament at St. John de Acre where King Richard with five of 
his knights held the field for a whole day against all comers, 
unhorsing even the doughty knight himself. Cedric calls for 
their names and the Palmer, standing near, who was Ivanhoe 
disguised, though his place was below the salt, named four and 
when he reached the fifth, after a pause in which he seemed 
trying to recollect said, "the fifth was a young knight of lesser 
renown and lower rank summoned into that honorable company, 
less to aid their enterprise than to make up their number; his 
name dwells not in my mind." 

The building was a fine one, fully complete in itself, yet so 
placed as, without disturbing it, to be the wing of a larger when 
that should become necessary. It had a frontage of forty- two 
feet on Ontario street by a depth of eighty feet. Being built of 
brick trimmed with stone, and having the floor tiles on iron 
girders, and the roof of metal; it was thought to be fire -proof. 
The offices and storerooms were on the first floor; the whole of 
the second was given up to books and pamphlets and incident- 
ally to a lecture and reading-room. It was formally dedicated 
November the 19, 1868; Mr. Scammon and Mr. Arnold 
making the addresses. The library, at this time, numbered over 
15,000 bound volumes, 72,000 pamphlets, 1700 files of news- 
papers, and 4600 manuscripts. This was a change indeed from 
the pine shelves in Mr. Rumsey's room. 

In his address delivered at the inauguration of the new build- 
ing on November 19, 1868, Mr. Arnold said of the collection: 

"Our library is believed to be nearly complete in the docu- 
ments and publications of the United States Government in 
every department from its organization down to the present time. 






192 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 



This is also true of the territorial and state government of Illi- 
nois, including all laws, journals, and records of every depart- 
ment. We have large collections of the documents of the North- 
western States and Territories, and Mr. Barry has made especial 
efforts to collect the Session Laws and legislative records of all 
the colonies and of all the states and territories from their first 
organization down. We have those of Virginia for two hundred 
years, those of Massachusetts very nearly complete from the 
beginning, those of Pennsylvania and New Jersey for one 
hundred years and those of the Western States including Ohio 
nearly perfect." 

The lawyer is evident in this enumeration. There were many 
manuscripts. I mention a few of them: 

The original journal of the expedition by Major Livingstone 
and the younger Baron Castine from Port Royal to Quebec in 
1 7 10. It came to the Society from Gurdon S. Hubbard who had 
it from his relative Governor Saltonstall of Connecticut. John 
Kinzie senior's manuscript account of the Indians residing in 
Chicago in the early part of the century; the original memorial to 
Congress for the separation of Illinois from the Indiana Territory, 
which alleged that "Illinois has a population of 3000 and that 
its connection with Indiana is an unnatural and destructive 
alliance." George Flower's correspondence with Lafayette, 
Jefferson, Cobbett, and other distinguished men, the original 
Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln. It does not 
seem worth while to continue the enumeration. 

The history from this time on till to-day, your President will 
tell you. The evening of October 8, 1871, saw building, books, 
maps, and manuscripts intact, the morning of the 9th a pile of 
brick, mortar, and ashes where they had been. 

At the conclusion of Mr. McCagg's address, which was heard 
with many enthusiastic expressions of appreciation, President 
Head said: 

As I was walking along State street this afternoon, I met an 
old-time and much esteemed friend, Mr. Edwin U. Mead. Mr. 
Mead is one of the high authorities on the early history and 
development of New England, and especially the State of Massa- 



SEMI-CENTENIAL CELEBRATION. I 93 

chusetts. His lectures and pamphlets issued through the "Old 
South Church" of Boston, are a mine of interesting and valuable 
information regarding the intellectual growth and development 
of New England. Mr. Mead has been for many years one of the 
active, working managers of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 
and has kindly consented to say a few words to us this evening. 

Mr. Mead extended to the Chicago Historical Society the 
cordial congratulations of the Massachusetts Society and gave a 
most interesting summary of the historical relations between New 
England and Chicago in the Middle West, making special men- 
tion of several gentlemen who had been active in the develop- 
ment of Chicago and the work of its Historical Society.* 

In the absence of Governor Deneen, the President stated that 
the Executive Committee had urged him to add some remarks 
suggested by the occasion and he spoke as follows : 

Our honored member, Mr. McCagg, has given us an admirable 
synopsis of incidents in the early days of the Society, up to the 
time of the great fire, which entirely destroyed its accumula- 
tions. Books numbering about one hundred thousand volumes, 
rare manuscripts, and historical letters and data, much of which 
was unique and can never be replaced, were destroyed. Three 
years later, the accumulations of these three years were wiped 
out in the second fire. In 1874, with undaunted courage, the 
pioneers began for the third time the work of up-building the 
institution. For nearly twenty years, the meetings of the Society 
were, in a way, a movable feast, it having occupied several differ- 
ent quarters; but in 1892 the present building was commenced, 
and in 1896, it was formally dedicated to the use and work of 
the Society. 

I am not an early member of the Historical Society, having 
joined in 1890, and my reminiscences are mostly measured by 
the terms in office of Mr. Edward G. Mason and Mr. John N. 
Jewett. I had occasionly, at an earlier date, attended the public 
meetings of the Society during the presidency of Mr. E. B. 

*The Executive Committee regrets, exceedingly, that no record was made 
of Mr. Mead's very interesting impromptu address, and that it therefore can 
not be printed here in full. 



194 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY. 

Washburne, the predecessor of Mr. Mason. His life-work illus- 
trates anew the fact that America is the land of opportunity. 
Mr. Washburne, whose home, for the greater part of his life, was 
at Galena, was for many years a member of Congress; later, 
Secretary of State in the cabinet of President Grant; then Min- 
ister to France. Returning to America, and taking up his abode 
in Chicago, he sprang almost at once from the comparatively 
obscure position of French Embassador to the presidency of the 
Chicago Historical Society, which position he held until his 
death. He was a most affable and dignified presiding officer, 
much interested in the work of the Society, and contributed to its 
shelves many volumes and public documents of value. His work 
here was a fitting crown of a laborious and honorable life. 

Mr. Edward G. Mason, after serving for several years as the 
efficient Vice-President of the Society, was chosen as its Presi- 
dent in 1887, and was annually re-elected for eleven years there- 
after. His special work was the erection of the building which 
shelters us to-night. This building cost $190,000. Nearly one- 
half this cost was borne by the donation of Henry D. Gilpin. 
The next largest item was $25,000 from John Crerar. After this 
were perhaps twenty others, subscribing amounts from $250 to 
$6000, such subscriptions being secured almost wholly by the 
efforts of Mr. Mason. The amount finally raised was said by 
the architect, Henry Ives Cobb, to be sufficient to complete the 
building, but when it was finished there was a deficiency of about 
$20,000. This was ultimately paid, one half by the gift of Mr. 
George M. Pullman, and the other half by the generous bequest 
of Mrs. J. Y. Scammon. The Society thus now owns the building 
and contents, free from debt. The building is the permanent 
monument to Mr. Mason. He was its inspiring genius. 

Mr. Mason was, in many ways, an ideal citizen of Chicago, the 
city of his pride and love. She never had a more loyal son. 
The growth of the city in material wealth, and especially in the 
cultivation and development of the arts, which are made possible 
by accumulated capital, was to him, a source of constant joy; and 
to the development of those arts, few contributed more than he. 

For the purpose of securing manuscripts and other material 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. I 95 

concerning the early history of Illinois, which were in danger of 
being lost, Mr. Mason spent many months, visiting all parts of 
Illinois and the neighboring states, and portions of Canada. 
Wherever he was, and however engaged, he always had an eye 
alert for adding anything of value to the splendid collection 
which now enriches this building. This collection is without 
parallel in the Nation, when we consider the brief time and 
limited means available for the work. 

The studies of Mr. Mason in the period of the French occu- 
pation of Illinois, and about the quaint old towns of Cahokia 
and Kaskaskia, were most thorough and exhaustive. The lives 
and manners of these frontier people; their fondness for, and 
introduction here of the gaiety and lightness of French peasant 
life, so utterly in contrast with the sombre gravity of the Puritan 
founders of New England; the midnight dances in the forest, 
"Where many a youth and many a maid 
Were dancing in the chequered shade;" 
the harvest -time frolics; their devotion to their religious faith 
and its priestly expositors; the quaint and frolicsome love- 
making of the youths and maidens; the arcadian and idyllic 
simplicity of their lives — all were pictured in our genial Presi- 
dent's mind as if he had lived among them in those earlier days. 

He had arranged with Houghton, Mifflin & Company, Boston, 
to write for their series of American Commonwealths the History 
of Illinois, and his passing away before the completion of this 
work was almost a national calamity. The work would have 
been especially full as to the hundred years of the French occu- 
pation. But on the shelves and in the archives of this Historical 
Society can still be found the greater part of the material he had 
proposed to use in the work, and some future student and writer 
will still find here the foundation for a picture of the French 
occupation of Illinois for a History of Illinois rivaling the fasci- 
nations of romance. 

While Mr. Mason was not one of the heroic workers who 
organized this Society and carried it through its early struggles, 
yet his work was so great and valuable that he may properly be 
characterized as anions: its founders. 2 



196 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

Hon. John N. Jewett was chosen President of the Society in 
1899, a year after the death of Mr. Mason, and filled the posi- 
tion until his death in 1904. Mr. Jewett had been for many 
years one of the leading members of the Chicago bar, and a dili- 
gent student of American history, especially the history of the 
region now known as the Middle West. He was thus fitted for 
the work to which he was called, and performed the duties of the 
position with conscientious fidelity. He almost never missed a 
meeting of the Society or its officers, and his sound judgment 
was of constant value in the management of its affairs. 

After his death, a -Memorial Meeting was held in this hall, 
when the Chicago Bar Association, of which Mr. Jewett had 
been president, and the John Marshall Law School, of which he 
was dean, joined this Society in delivering addresses of eulogy. 
On the following day, the Executive Committee, at a special 
meeting, adopted and caused to be spread upon the Society's 
records, a Memorial, an engrossed and bound copy of which was 
sent to Mrs. J ewett, and from which I quote : 

"The memory of John Nelson Jewett has been publicly and 
formally honored by oration and eulogy. The community in 
which for half a century he had been an eminent and an 
honorable citizen, has attested the height of esteem in which it 
held him. * * * 

"It is now our privilege, as those who were perhaps closest to 
him in this work of his latest years, to pay the last and most 
intimate tribute of affection, and to spread upon our records the 
last expression of honor, until the pen of some gifted writer shall 
adequately chronicle the life and character of him who has passed 
from our daily sight. 

"It is hard to speak of Mr. Jewett in the past tense. So 
impressive was his personality, and so vivid is his picture in our 
minds, that with difficulty we realize his absence is to be 
longer than for the day, and that the rich tones of his majestic 
voice must henceforth but echo through the infinite silence. 

"When, after much urging, he with diffidence accepted the 
Society's presidency, his heart warmed to the work, and none of 
his predecessors was ever more devoted to its welfare, none 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 197 

labored more zealously, in season and out of season, in its 
behalf. From his vast treasury of intellectual strength, of legal 
acumen, of profound learning, of sound judgment, of sterling 
integrity, he gave lavishly to the care and guidance of the 
Society's affairs. In the four years of his presidency, he called 
this Committee together for the Society's work sixty-four times. 
It had not been so often assembled in the preceding twenty-five 
years. What more eloquent testimony could there be to his 
unselfish devotion, his untiring energy, his grasp of detail, and 
his aggressive leadership in shaping, performing, and directing 
the duties devolved upon him and upon this Committee ! 

"He found the Society dormant, its finances disturbed, and its 
records in chaos; he left its work systematized and in active 
progress, its trust funds intact and productive. The disaster 
that threatened at the beginning of his presidency has yielded to 
his mastery, and solvency and prosperity have been established 
in its stead. While he was justly proud of these results, he 
disclaimed the credit for their accomplishment. The reward of 
his labors was the success he achieved. * * 

"The glove of velvet adorned, but did not mask, his hand of 
iron. Stately in bearing, courtly in manner, masterful in affairs, 
gracious in his simplicity, he won the respect, the admiration, 
and the affection of those who were priviliged to know the Man. 

"His presidency brought honor to our name among the 
historical societies of the world. 

"Those who knew John N. Jewett best loved him most and 
have the chief right to mourn; and we who sat at his feet and 
held up his hands in this work * * claim it our due to 
spread upon our records this too meager tribute to his memory." 

The records of the Society make mention of many interesting 
incidents during the past fifty years. In 1880, the Society was 
troubled by the existence of a mortgage of $12,000 upon its then 
new building, the holders of which were pressing for payment. 
At a meeting of the Executive Committee, where this matter had 
been discussed, Mr. L. Z. Leiter asked that he might be allowed 
to attend to that. A little memorandum book is now in the 
possession of the Society, showing the results of Mr. Leiter's 



198 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

activity as a canvasser. It shows that Judge Mark Skinner, 
Edwin H. Sheldon, Henry J. Willing, and Mr. Leiter himself, 
each contributed $2500, and Dr. D. K. Pearsons and Albert A. 
Munger each $1000, whereby the mortgage was cancelled. Mr. 
Leiter was for many years a liberal giver for the work of the 
Society. He paid the expenses of publishing the first and 
second volumes of its collections. 

The unique and valuable papers of President James Madison, 
filling eight large folio volumes, which contain some fourteen 
hundred letters written by Mr. Madison, with some few received 
by him, during his public life, were purchased by Mr. Marshall 
Field, and presented by him to the Society. He also paid the 
cost of publishing the third volume of its collections, being the 
official letters and documents of Ninian Edwards, territorial 
governor of Illinois. 

We are often told from the pulpit that he who giveth is not 
thereby impoverished, and the truth of this maxim is seen in the 
fact that after the liberality of the two gentlemen, last named, 
Messrs. Leiter and Field, they have still left their families amply 
provided for. 

The list of men and women who have been officers and 
members of the Historical Society is a notable one, and embraces 
a goodly proportion of the men who are credited with being the 
makers of Chicago. Among them we find the names of William 

B. Ogden, Isaac N. Arnold, Henry D. Gilpin, J. Y. Scammon, 
Walter L. Newberry, Edwin H. Sheldon, Cyrus H. McCormick, 
Henry J. Willing, T. B. Blackstone, N. K. Fairbank, George 
M. Pullman, Levi Z. Leiter, Mark Skinner, Marshall Field, William 
Blair, Charles B. Farwell, S. H. Kerfoot, Dr. R. N. Isham, Edwin 

C. Larned, Henry W. King, Edwin S. Isham, Wm. G. Hibbard, 
C. W. Fullerton, John H. Dunham, George Sturges, Chalkley 
J. Hambleton, Julian S. Rumsey, John B. Turner, Jonathan 
Burr, Dr. John H. Foster, William Bross, A. H. Burley, Hugh 
T. Dickey, H. G. Loomis, J. H. McVicker, F. H. Winston, John 
Wentworth, J. T. Ryerson, Thomas Hoyne, Ezra B. McCagg, 
Lambert Tree, D. K. Pearsons, Henry H. Porter, A. C. Bartlett, 
E. W. Blatchford, Byron L. Smith, Edward E. Ayer, Samuel M 



SEMI-CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION. 199 

Nickerson, Richard T. Crane, D. G. Hamilton, Charles L. 
Hutchinson, Martin A. Ryerson, John J. Glessner, Ezra J. 
Warner, and many more of the builders of our city. We feel 
therefore, when we invite the men and women of the present 
and the coming generation to join this notable band of honor- 
able men and women, that we are asking them to marry into a 
good and worthy family. 

The meeting of this evening is designed to be largely social, 
where the old and the newer members of the Society may meet 
and become acquainted. Nothing in the way of passing the 
plate is contemplated. But it may not be amiss to briefly advert 
to the financial side of the work of the Society. I have already 
stated that the institution owns its building and collections, and 
is free from debt. Its income is derived from the annual dues of 
the members, and the interest upon its permanent endowment. 
This endowment is regretfully small. It is carefully invested, but 
the income is greatly inadequate to the work before its managers. 
Rare and valuable material connected with the early history of 
our city and State, that will be of priceless value to the future 
historian and which may at any time, be lost or destroyed; is 
often available, but we have not the money to buy when it is 
purchasable. 

Within the last few years, several sums of $5000 and some of 
lesser amounts, have been bequeathed for the endowment fund, 
by Mrs. Edward Swan Stickney, Mrs. J. Y. Scammon, Mrs. Mah- 
lon D. Ogden, Mrs. Lucian Tilton, Huntington W. Jackson, 
Henry J. Willing, E. T. Watkins, and T. Mauro Garrett. 

I trust that these items indicate a growing habit among the 
members of the Society to remember it in their wills, and few 
methods can be named where the memory of the donors, attached 
to a special fund, will be more sure of permanent honor, or where 
the donations will be used more for the benefit of Chicago and 
its people, and its men and women of letters. 

At the present time, when the current thought and conversa- 
tion is so largely relative to contagion, I venture to hope that the 
making of bequests to this institution may become contagious, 
and remain so long after the present scarlet-fever excitement has 
passed away. 



200 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY - 

These bequests are sacredly guarded, the income alone is 
expended, and the names of the donors, attached to the special 
funds, will be passed to a grateful posterity, who will bless their 
generosity and be benefited thereby, long after Macauley's his- 
toric New Zealander shall, "in the midst of a vast solitude where 
London was, take his stand on a broken arch of London Bridge, 
to sketch the ruins of St. Pauls." 

Even these prospective bequests, while pleasing, have their sad 
and mournful side, since in each case we must mourn the loss of 
a loved and honored member. Should anyone wish to guard 
against this sadness, and make the endowment a donation rather 
than a bequest, such person, by communicating with the Execu- 
tive Committee or the Treasurer, can doubtless make an arrange- 
ment for a suitable commercial discount for cash. 

Following the applause with which President Head's address 
was received, the audience left the Lecture Hall and found enter- 
tainment in the various departments of the Building. The Gilpin 
Library, the Stickney Library, the Manuscript Room, and the 
Museum, all were open and each attracted its quota of the guests. 
Refreshments were served on the large bronze tables in the 
Reading Room, where the decorations were American Beauty 
roses, and a special exhibit of photographs, manuscripts, and 
other monuments of the first days of the Society, arranged by the 
House Committee and the Librarian, bore eloquent testimony to 
the foresight of the founders. 

A large number of the ladies and gentlemen present had been 
residents of Chicago for the whole fifty years of the Society's life, 
and this gathering gave to these people such an opportunity as 
had rarely been offered of meeting a goodly number of their 
friends and acquaintances of early days. 

Upon no other occasion, except the dedication of the Building 
in 1896 and the reception in 1903, commemorative of the Cen- 
tennial of the erection of Fort Dearborn, had so many persons 
attended a meeting as the guests of the Society, and the occasion 
was one of the most interesting in its history. 








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1856 — 1907 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 201 



INCORPORATORS 

William Barry, Founder 
James Van Zandt Blaney 
Mason Brayman 
William Hubbard Brown 
Nathan Smith Davis 
VanHollis Higgins 
John Harris Kinzie 
George Manierre 
Ezra Butler McCagg 
Mahlon Dickerson Ogden 
William Butler Ogden 
Charles Henry Ray 
Franklin Scammon 
Jonathan Young Scammon 
Mark Skinner 
William A. Smallwood 
Edward Islay Tinkham 
Samuel Dexter Ward 
Joseph Dana Webster 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 203 

CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

Organized, April 24, 1856. 

Incorporated, February 7, 1857. 

Building Dedicated, November 19, 1868. 

Building and Collections Destroyed by The Chicago Fire, 
October 8-9, 1S71. 

Collections Destroyed by Second Fire, July 14, 1874. 

Temporary Building Occupied, October 16, 1877. 

Collections Stored, and Building Removed, 1892. 

Corner-Stone of new Building Laid, November 12, 1892. 

Present Fire- proof Building, Erected by Private 

Subscription at a Cost of $190000; Dedicated 
December 15, 1896. 

LOCATIONS 



1856. Marine Bank Building, Northeast corner 

Lake and La Salle Streets. 

1856-1857. Exchange Brnk Building, Southwest corner 
Clark and Lake Streets. 

1857-1858. Rumsey Building, 44 and 46 La Salle Street. 



1S58-1868. Newberry Building, Northeast corner 
Wells and Kinzie Streets. 

186S-1S71. Society's Building, Northwest corner 

Dearborn Avenue and Ontario Street. 

1372-1874. Scammon Building, 209 Michigan Avenue. 

1877- 1892. Temporary Building, 142 Dearborn Avenue. 

1896 — Society's Permanent Building, Northwest Corner 

Dearborn Avenue and Ontario Street. 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 205 



Benefactors 

JONATHAN BURR 
PHILO CARPENTER 

JOHN CRERAR 

T. MAURO GARRETT 

HENRY DILWORTH GILPIN 

HUNTINGTON WOLCOTT JACKSON 

FRANCES ELIZABETH OGDEN 

LUCRETIA POND 

GEORGE MORTIMER PULLMAN 

MARIA SHELDON SCAMMON 

ELIZABETH HAMMOND STICKNEY 

LUCRETIA JANE TILTON 

ELIAS TAYLOR WATKINS 

HENRY JENKENS WILLING 

Persons who bequeath money or property to the Society are enrolled as Benefactors. 



206 CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



Membership in the Society may be had only upon recom- 
mendation of the Executive Committee. There is no entrance 
fee. Life Membership, free from all dues, is five hundred 
dollars; Annual MembersJiip, twenty -five dollars. These 
payments carry tvith them the right to hold office, to vote, 
and take part in the proceedings of the Society, to the use of 
the Library and Reading-room, to admisison to all Lectures 
and Entertainments, and to a copy of the Society's current 
Publications. 



tfovm of JSequest 

I Give and BequeatJi to the Chicago Historical Society, 
Incorporated by Special Act of the Legislature of the 
State of Illinois, Approved February J, 185J, the sum of 
_ _ Dollars. 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 207 

OFFICERS 

(OFFICERS FOR 1907-8, PAGE 224) 

PRESIDENTS 

William Hubbard Brown -----.. I gc6 i860 

Walter Loomis Newberry ...... jggo jggg 

Jonathan Young Scammon ...... j868 ^70 

Edwin Holmes Sheldon .--... x 8 70 t 8 7 6 

Isaac Newton Arnold -----.. j8 7 6 ^84 

Elihu Benjamin Washburne ----.. 1884—1887 

Edward Gay Mason ---.... 1887—1898 

John Nelson Jewett 1899— 1904 

Franklin Harvey Head ----.._ 1904— 



VICE-PRESIDENTS 

William Butler Ogden ....... ^^ t 868 

Jonathan Young Scammon --.-.. J 1856— 1857 

... . „ I 1863— 1868 

Walter Loomis Newberry ...... jSjS i860 

George Manierre ....... jggj x gg 

Edwin Holmes Sheldon -----.. jgg,, !87 

Thomas Hoyne ------.. J '869 — 1875 

T? T> AT C* t 1877— 1882 

Ezra Butler McCagg -----.. 1870— 1875 

George Frederick Rumsey ...... x g 7 g jg 77 

Robert Todd Lincoln ---.... 1876— 1877 

William Hickling ----... 1878— 1880 

Elihu Benjamin Washburne ...... j88 r 1884 

John Wentworth 1883—1884 

Alexander Caldwell McClurg ----.. 1884— 1899 

George Washington Smith --.... J J 884 — 1885 

,, „ ,, 1 1887-1898 

Edward Gay Mason ....... 1885— 1887 

Franklin Harvey Head ----.. ^99 1904 

Thomas Dent - - - - . . . . 1809— 

Lambert Tree ........ iqo . 



208 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



TREASURERS 



Samuel Dexter Ward 

Edward Islay Tinkham 

William Blair 

Franklin Scammon 

George Frederick Rumsey 

Belden Farrand Culver 

Thomas H. Armstrong 

Robert Reid 

Solomon Albert Smith 

Byron Laflin Smith 

Augustus Harris Burley 

Henry H. Nash 

Gilbert B. Shaw 

Edward Gay Mason (Acting) 

Orson Smith - 



1856— 1858 
1859— 1860 
1870— 1873 



1863— 1864 

1865—1866 

1867—1868 

1869 

1874— 1878 

1879 

1880 



CORRESPONDING SECRETARIES 



Charles Henry Ray 
Ezra Butler McCagg 



1856—1857 
1858— 1863 
1869— 1870 



SECRETARIES AND LIBRARIANS 

William Barry ........ 1856—1866 

Thomas H. Armstrong - .... - 1866— 1868 

Lemuel G. Olmstead - ..... 1868 — 1869 

William Corkran - ..... 1869— 1870 

J W. Hoyt ... 1870— 1871 

Belden Farrand Culver ...... 1874— 1877 

Albert David Hager ....... 1877 — 1887 

John Moses .....--- 1887—1893 

Edward Gay Mason (Acting) ...... 1893— 1896 

Charles Evans -------- 1896—1901 

James W. Fertig, Secretary ...... 1901— 1907 

Caroline M. McIlvaine, Librarian ..... 1901 — 



ASSISTANTS 



Samuel Stone 
William Corkran 



1857—1862 
1865— 1866 
1870 — 1871 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 209 



EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

William K. Ackerman - - - - - - . - i83o— :S:S 

Isaac Newton Arnold ------- x s 7X — x s 7 6 

Edward Everett Ayer - - - - - - 1887 — 1906 

Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford ----- !8 74 — jS 7 5 

Joseph Tilton Bowen ....... XQO r — 

Belden Farrand Culver ...... x 3 7 - — xSSo 



William Alden Fuller 



1903 — 



John DeKoven -------- x g 7 6 — x g 77 

John High Dunham - - - - - - . , - 1871 — 1873 

George Lincoln Dunlap ...... x 3-6 — zZg~, 

Lyman Judson Gage ---.... x gj X — x gg3 

T. Mauro Garrett ------- x gQ Q — X0O3 

Daniel Goodwin - - - - - - - - —1899 

Charles Frederick Gunther --.... x 3jg — 

Chalkley Jay Hambleton -.-... 1829—1900 

William Hickling .....'.. x 8 77 — x g3 x 

Samuel Humes Kerfoot ------- x gg 7 — jg g ^ 

Samuel Humes Kerfoot, Jr. ----- - 1897 — . 

Levi Ziegler Leiter ....... x g 7I — I0O+ 

Ezra Butler McCagg ------- x g6g — x g 70 

Edward Gay Mason ----... x gg 3 — x gg- 

George Merryweather ------- x g co — 

Walter Cass Newberry ------- Z g ^ — 

Daniel Kimball Pearsons ------ 



----- 1B01 — 1900 

Julius Rosenthal - . ...... z 3- 4 — x g 77 

George Frederick Rumsey ------ X 8 7X — x 8 7 s 

Julian Sidney Rumsey ------- x gg — x g8 x 

Jonathan Young Scammon ------ x g 7I — ; 8 75 

Otto Leopold Schmidt ------- x 8 Q q — 

Edwin Holmes Sheldon ------ x g 7 6 — jjgg 

Mark Skinner ........ x g 70 — x gg 7 

George Washington Smith ------ x gg 7 — jgjj 

Lucian Tilton ........ x g 7I — x 8 75 

John Bice Turner ....... x g. x — x g 7I 

Elias Taylor Watkins ..... . . z i-^ — x g 7Q 

John Wentworth ....--. x g3 2 — x sg6 

Henry Jenkens Willing ------- x 836 — x 3 Q g 

John P. Wilson ......... I q '5 — 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



TRUSTEES OF THE GILPIN FUND 



Augustus Harris Burley ------- 2879 — 1903 

Clarence Augustus Burley ------ ,g 0+ — 

Eugene Heald Fishburn ------- j^gi — 

Walter Lowrie Fisher -...-. jp 0+ — 

William Butler Ogden ------- 1 86o — 1877 

Erskine M. Phelps ------- 1904— 

George Frederick Rumsey ------ ^879 — 1881 

Edwin Holmes Sheldon -...._ ^g — j8g 

Henry Jenkens Willing ------- !888 — 1903 

Peter Lynch Yoe ------- ^'s — 189S 

The President, and First Vice-President, ex-officis. 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



MEMBERS 

»J« Deceased 

o Membership ceased. 



HONORARY LIFE MEMBERS 



Aykr, Edward Everett 
►{•Barry, William 

Bartlett, Adolphus Clay 
►{•Burr, Jonathan 

Crane, Richard Teller 

H'jbbard, Mary Ann 

Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence 
►{•Leiter, Levi Ziegler 

McCagg, Ezra Butler 
•{•McClintock, Sarah A. 

McCormick, Cyrus Hall, Jr. 

McCormick, Nettie Fowler 

►{•MoSELEY, FLAVEL 

►{•Munger, Albert Allison 
Nickerson, Samuel Mayo 



Pearsons, Daniel Kimball 

Porter, Henry Hedge 
►{•Robbins, Allen 

Ryerson, Martin Antoine 

Schmidt, Otto Leopold 
►J«Sheldon, Edwin Holmes 

Skinner, Elizabeth 

Skinnbr, Frederika 
►{•Skinner, Mark 

Smith, Byron Laflin 
►{•Stone, Samuel 

Tree, Lambert 
►{•Van Schaack, Hbnry Crugek 
►{•Willing, Henry Jenkens 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



LIFE MEMBERS 



►{■Adams, John McGregor 
►{•Arnold, Isaac Newton 
►{•Blackstone, Timothy Beach 

Blatchford, Eliphalet Wickes 
►{•Bogue, George Marquis 

Bond, Benjamin Nicodemus 
►{•Boomer, Lucius B. 
►{•Bowen, Chauncey Thomas 
►{•Bowen, James Harvey 
►{•Bross, William 
►{•Brown, William Hubbard 
►{•Burley, Arthur Gilman 

Cobb, Henry Ives 
►{•Coolbaugh, William Findlay 
►{•Culver, Belden Farrand 
►{•Derby, William M. 
►{•Dickey, Hugh Thompson 
►{•DuNLAr, George Lincoln 
►{•Ellis, J. Alder 
►{•Ely, David J. 

►{•Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg 
►{•Farnam, Henry 

Farnam, William Whitman 
►{•Farwell, Charles Benjamin 

Farwell, John Villars 
►{•Farwell, Marcus Augustus 
►{•Ferry, William Henry 
►{•Field, Marshall 
►{•Forsythe, John 
►{•Fuller, Samuel Worcester 
►{•fullerton, alexander nathaniel 

Greenebaum, Henry 
►{•Gurnee, Walter Smith 

hlllebrand, gerhard h. 

Honore, Henry H. 
►{•Hoyne, Thomas 
►{•Jansen, Egbert Lefevee 

Jewett, Ellen Rountree 
►{•Johnston, Samuel 
►{•Jones, Kiler Kent 
►{•Kerfoot, Samuel Humes 

Kerfoot, Samuel Humes, Jr. 
►{"Kidder, Nathan B. 
►{•Kinzie, John Harris 



Leiter, Joseph 
►{•Lloyd, Jessie Bross 
►{•Loomis, Horatio Gates 

Lowden, Frank Orren 

Lytton, Henry Charles 
►{•McVicker, James Hubert 
►{•Meeker, Arthur Burr 
«{«Moore, Robert 
•{•Moss, Robert Edward 
►{•Newberry, Walter Loomis 
►{•Ogden, Mahlon Dickerson 
►{•Ogden, William Butler 

Ogden, William Butler 

Page, Benjamin Vaughan 

Palmer, Honore 
►{•Quan, William Joseph 
►{"Raymond, Benjamin Wright 
►{"Reed, Joseph Sampson 
►{•Reid, Robert 

Roberts, James Henry 
►{•Rumsey, George Frederick 
►{•Ryerson, Joseph Turner 
►{•Sapieha, Louis 
►{•Scammon, Charles Trufant 
►{•Scammon, Iranklin 
►{•Scammon, Jonathan Young 
►{•Scammon, Maria Sheldon 

Seipp, Catharina Orb 
►{•Small, Alvin Edmond 
►{•Smith, Georgb 
►{•Smith, Perry Hiram 
►{•Spalding, Jesse 
►{•Thompson, Daniel 
►{•Thompson, Harvey M. 
►{•Turner, John Bice 
►{•Tyrrell, John 
►{•Walker, George Clarke 

Warner, Ezra Joseph 
►{•Watkins, Elias Taylor 
►{•Wentworth, John 
►{•Wheeler, Calvin Thatcher 
►{•Winston, Frederick Hampden 
►{•Yoe, Peter Lynch 



CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



213 



ANNUAL MEMBERS 



►{•Ackerman, William K. 

Adams, George Everett 

Adsit, Charles Chapin 
►{"Adsit, James M. 
o Aldis, Owen Franklin 
o Allerton, Samuel Waters 
o Antisdel, Albert 
►{•Armour, George 

Armour, George Allison 
►JiArmour, Philip Danforth 
o Austin, Frederick C. 
►{•Avery, Thomas Morris 
►{•Ayer, Benjamin Franklin 
o Badger, Alpheus C. 
o Bailey, Edward Payson 

Baker, Alfred Landon 
►{"Baker, William Taylor 
►{"Ballard, Addison 

Bannard, Henry Clay 

Barnard, Frederick 

Barnes, Charles Joseph 
o Barrett, Samuel E. 

Bartholomay, Henry, Jr. 

Barton, Enos Melancthon 
►{«Bass, Perkins 
►{"Bates, Eli 
►{"Baxter, Daniel Frank 

Beach, Myron Hawley 

Beale, William Gerrish 
►{•Beckwith, Charles H. 
►{•Beebe, Thomas H. 
►{•Beecher, Jerome 
►{•Bentley, Cyrus 
o Billings, Cornelius K. Garrison 
o Billings, Frank 
o Bishop, Henry W. 
o Black, John C. 
►{"Blackwell, Robert S. 

Blaine, Anita McCormick 
o Blair, Chauncey J. 

Blair, Edward Tyler 
o Blair, Francis Morrison 
►{"Blair, Lyman 

Blair, Sarah Seymour 
►{•Blair, William 
o Blanchard, Rollin P. 
►{•Blaney, James Van Zandt 



Blount, Fred Meacham 
o Bodman, Luther W. 
►{•Boutell, Louis Henry 
►{•Bowen, Ira Pardee 

Bowen, Joseph Tilton 
►{■Boyd, James 
►{•Bradley, David Emery 

Bradley, J. Harley 
•{"Bradley, William Henry 
►{"Braun, George Philip 
o Brooks, James Carter 
o Brooks, Jonathan W., Jr. 

Brown, Edward Osgood 

Brown, Samuel Lockwood 

Bryan, Alfred C. 

Bryan, Frederick William 

Bryan, John Charles 
►{"Bryan, Thomas Barbour 

Bryson, William J. 

Buckingham, Ebenezer 

Bunn, John Whitfield 
►{"Burch, Isaac Howe 
►{•Burley, Augustus Harris 

Burley, Clarence Augustus 
►{"Burling, Edward 

Burton, LeGrand Sterling 
o Bush, William H. 

►{"BUTLBR, HERMON BeARDSLEY 

Butz, Otto Charles 
►{"Calhoun, John B. 

Calhoun, William James 
►{"Campbell, William J. 

Cannon, Thomas H. 

Carpenter, Augustus Alvord 

Carpenter, George Benjamin 
o Carson, John B. 
►{"Carter, James 

Caruthers, Kate S. 
►{"Carver, Benjamin F. 

Chalmers, William James 
o Chandler, Frank R. 
►{"Chandler, William W. 
o Charnlky, James 
«{«Chase, Samuel Blanchard 

Chatfield-Taylor, Hobart Chatfield 

Cheney, Charles Edward 
►{"Chesbrough, Ellis Sylvester 



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Annual Members — Continued 



o Clark, John Marshall 
►{•Clarke, George C. 
o Clarke, George Washington 
►{•Clarke, John Vaughan 
►J-Clarkson, J. Thorn 
►{•Clarkson, Robert Harper 
►{•Cobb, Silas Bowman 

Coburn, Lewis Larned 

coffeen, mllo lester 
o Colahan, Charles 
o Collier, John 
o Collyer, Robert 
o Coman, Seymour 

Conover, Charles Hopkins 
►{•Cook, Burton C 
►{•Cooper, John Snider 
o Corbin, Caroline Fairfield 
►{•Corse, John Murray 
►{•Corwith, Henry 
►{•Corwith, Nathan 
►{•counselman, charles 
►{•Cowles, Alfred 
o Cramer, Ambrose 

Crane, Charles Richard 
►{•Crerar, John 

Curtiss, Charles Chauncey 
o Cushing, Edward T. 
►{•Davis, Nathan Smith 

Davis, Nathan Smith, Jr. 
►{•Dearborn, Luther M. 

Deering, Charles 

Deering, William 

DeKoven, Annie Larrabee 
►{•DeKoven, John 

Delano, Frederic Adrian 

Dent, Louis Lee 

Dent, Thomas 
o DeWolf, Oscar C. 
►{•Dexter, Wirt 

Dick, Albert Blake 

Dickinson, Albert 

Dickinson, Jacob Macgavic 

Dixon, Arthur 
►{•Dodge, George E. P. 
►{•Doggett, William Elkanah 
►{•Dole, James H. 
4«Dow, J. Hall 
4«Dow, William Cary 
►{•Duggan, James 

Dummer, William Francis 



►{•Dunham, James Sears 
►{•Dunham, John High 

Durand, Elliott 

Eastman, Sidney Corning 
o Eaton, Sherburne B. 

Eberhardt, Max 

Eddy, Augustus Newland 
o Ellis, Thomas H. 
o Evans, Charles 
►{•Evans, John 

Ewen, John Meiggs 
o Fargo, James C. 

Farwell, Granger 

Farwell, John Villars, Jr. 
o Fay, Charles Norman 

Fergus, George Harris 

Ferry, Charles Herbert 
►{•Field, Henry 

Fishburn, Eugene Heald 

Fisher, Lucius George 

Fisher, Walter Lowrie 
o Flint, Thompson J. S. 
o Flower, James Monroe 
►{•Forsythe, George A. 
►{•Foster, John Herbert 
►{•Foster, John Wells 

Frankel, Julius 

Freer, Archibald E. 
•{•Freer, Lemuel Covell Paine 
►{•Freer, Nathan Marble 
►{•Fuller, Allen Curtis 

Fuller, Oliver Franklyn 

Fuller, William Alden 
►{•Fullerton, Charles William 
►{•Gage, David A. 
o Gage, Lyman Judson 
o Gardiner, Edwin J. 
►{•Garrett, T. Mauro 
►{•Gerard, John B. 
o Giles, William 

Glessner, John Jacob 
►{•Glover, Joseph Otis 
►{•Goodwin, Daniel, Jr. 
►{•Goodrich, Grant 

Goodrich, Horace Atwater. 
►{•Grant, William Cutting 

Greenlee, Ralph Stebbins 

Gresham, Otto 
►{•Griggs, Samuel Chapman 
►{•Grinnkll, Julius Sprague 



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215 



Annual Members — Continued 



►{•Grover, Zuinglius 

Gunther, Charles Frederick 

Gurley, William W. 
►{•Hadduck, Edward Hiram 
►{•Hager, Albert David 
►{•Haines, John Charles 
o Halsey, J. J. 
►{•Hambleton, Chalkley Jay 
o Hamill, Charles Davisson 
o Hamill, Ernest Alfred 

Hamilton, David Gilbert 

Hamilton, Henry Edward 
o Hamlin, John Austin 
►{•Hammond, Charles Goodrich 
►{"Hannah, John S. 
o Harding, Amos J. 
o Harding, George F. 
►{•Harmon, Charles Loomis 

Harris, George Bacon 

Harris, Joseph 

Harris, Norman Waite 
o Harris, Robert 

Harrison, Carter Henry 

Harrison, William Preston 

Harvey, Frank William 
o Harvey, Turlington Walker 

Haskell, Frederick Tudor 
►{•Haven, Luther 

Head, Franklin Harvey 
o Healy, Edith 
o Heath, Ernest W. 
o Heckman, Wallace 
►{•Henderson, Charles Mather 
►{•Hibbard, John Randolph 
►{•Hibbard, William Gold 
►{•Hickling, William 
►{•Higgins, Charles 
►{•Higgins, Van Hollis 

High, George Henry 
►{•High, George Meeker 
►{•High, John, Jr. 

Higinbotham, Harlow Niles 

Hitchcock, Annie McClure 
►{•Hitchcock, Charles 
►{•Hjortsberg, Max 
o Holdsworth, James J. 
o Holmes, Charles B. 
►{•Holmes, Ira 
o Hooper, Henry 

Hopkins, John Patrick 



►{•Hotz, Christoph 
►{•Houghteling, William DeZeng 
►{•Howe, Samuel 

Hulburd, Charles Henry 

Hunt, Robert Woolston 
►{•Hurlbut, Horace A. 

Hyde, James Nevins 

Hynes, William J. 

Insull, Samuel 
►{•Isham, Edward Swift 

Isham, George Snow 
►{•Isham, Henry Pierrepont 
►{•Isham, Ralph Nelson 
►{•Jackson, Huntington Wolcott 
►{•Jackson, Obadiah 
►{•Jacobson, Augustus 
►{•Janes, John James 
o Jerrems, William G., Jr. 
►{•Jewett, John Nelson 
o Jewett, Samuel Rountree 
►{•Johnson, Enos 
o Johnson, Herrick 
►{•Johnson, Hosmer Allen 
►{•Johnson, William Sage 
►{•Jones, Daniel Amasa 

Jones, David Bennett 
o Jones, Eliphaz Warner 

Jones, Joseph Russell 
►{•Jones, Mahlon Ogden 

Jones, Thomas Davies 
o Judson, Harry Pratt 
►{•Kales, Francis H. 
►{•Keep, Albert 

Keep, Chauncey 
►{•Keith, Edson 

Kelley, William Edward 
►{•Kellogg, Charles P. 

Kerfoot, Annie Warfield Lawrence 

Kerfoot, William Dale 
►{•Kimball, Charles P. 

Kimball, Eugene S. 
►{•Kimball, William Wallace 
►{•King, Aurelia R. Case 

King, Francis 
►{•King, Henry William 
►{•Kirk, James Alexander 
►{•Kirk, John Balderstone 
►{•Kirkland, Joseph 
►{•Laflin, George Hinman 
►{•Larned, Edwin Channing 



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Annual Members — Continued 



o Larned, Walter Cranston 
►{•Larrabee, Charles Rollin 

Lathrop, Bryan 

Lathrop, Helen L. Aldis 
►{•Lawrence, Charles Burrall 

Lawrence, Dwight 
►{•Lawrence, Edward Franklin 

Lawson, Victor Fremont 

Lav, Albert Tracv 
►{•Lee, David Stewart 
o Leeds, William Bateman 

Lefens, Thies Jacob 

Leicht, Edward Albert 
o Le Moyne, John V. 
►{•Lester, John Threadgold 
►{•Lill, Willliam 

Lincoln, Robert Todd 
o Loesch, Francis J, 
►{•Lombard, Josiah Lewis 
►{•Long, John Conant 
►{•Loomis, John Mason 

Loomis, Mary Hunt 

Lord, John Brockett 
►{•Loring, Sanford E. 
o McAuley, John T. 
►{•McClurg, Alexander Caldwell 

McConnell, Charles Henry 
o McCormick, Alexander Agnew 
►{•McCormick, Cyrus Hall 

McCormick, Harold Fowler 
►{•McCormick, Leander James 
o McCormick, Robert Hall 
o McCormick, Robert Sanderson 

McCormick, Stanley 
►{•McCormick, William Sanderson 
►{•McCrea, Samuel Harkness 
o McEwex, John 
►{•McKennan, H. 

McKinlock, George Alexander 

MacMillan, Thomas Cuming 

MacVeagh, Franklin 
o McWilliams, Lafayette 
>{<Magee, Haines H. 

Mair, Charles A. 
►{•Manierre, George 
o Manierre, George, Jr. 
o Manierre, William Reid 
►{•Mason, Edward Gay 
o Mason, Henry Burall 
o Mason, Julia Starkweather 



►{•Mason, Roswell B. 

Mayer, Levy 
►{•Mears, Charles 
►{•Mears, Nathan 
►{•Medill, Joseph 

Merryweather, George 
►{•Miller, Henry Giles 

Mills, Luther Laflin 
►{•Mohr, John 

Moore, James Hobart 
►{•Moore, Silas Milton 

Morgan, Fred William 

Morris, Edward 

Morris, Frank M. 

Morris, Henry Crittenden 

Morris, Ira N. 
o Morse, Jay Collins 

Morton, Joy 
►{•Moses, Adolph 
►{•Moses, John 

Mulliken, Alfred Henry 

Mulliken, Charles Henry 
o M linger, Wesley 
o Munn, Ira Y. 
►{•Nash, Henry H. 
o Nelson, Murry 

Newberry, Walter Cass 
►{•Newell, John 

Newman, Jacob 
o Nixon, William R. 

Noyes, LaVerne W. 
o O'Connor, Jeremiah D. 
o Odell, John J. P. 
►{•Officer, Alexander 
►{•Ogden, Frances Elizabeth 
o Orb, John A. 
o Osborn, Charles M. 
o Osborn, William Henry 
o Otis, William A. 
►{•Palmer, Potter 
►{•Pardee, Theron 
o Patterson, Robert Wilson, Jr. 

Peck, Ferdinand Wythe 
►{•Pence, Abram Morris 
o Perce, Le Grand Winfield 
o Perley, Edward E. 
o Pettibone, Asa G. 

Phelps, Erskine M. 
o Phillips, Thomas S. 

Pike, Eugene Samuel 



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217 



Annual Members — Continued 



o Pitkin, Charlotte Whitehead 
o Pitkin, Harvey Ellicott 
►{•Potter, Orrin Woodward 
►{•Prentice, Sartell 
o Price, Vincent Clarence 
►{•Pullman, George Mortimer 

Quan, Henry W. 
° Quincy, Charles F. 
►{•Rawson, Stephen W. 
►{•Ray, Charles Henry 
o Raymond, Henry J. 

Ream, Norman Bruce 

Rehm, William Henry 
o Rf.id, Daniel Gray 

Rend, William Patrick 

Revell, Alexander Hamilton 

Ripley, Edward Payson 
o Rockwell, Charles H. 
o Rockwell, John 
►{•Rogers, Edward Kendall 

Roloson, Robert W. 

Rood, James, Jr. 
►{•Rosenberg, Jacob 

Rosenfeld, Maurice 
►{•Rozet, George H. 

Rubens, Harry 
►{•Rumsey, Julian Sidney 

Runnells, John Sumner 
o Rust, Horatio N. 
►{•Ritter, David 
o Ryerson, Arthur 

Ryerson, Edward Larned 
►{•Sargent, Homer Earle 
►{•Sawyer, Sidney 
o Sayler, Harry Lincoln 

Schmidt, Fred Michael 

Schmidt, Richard Ernest 
o Schmitt, Frank P. 
o Scott, Caroline R. Greene 

Scott, Frank Hamline 
►{•Scripps, John Locke 
o Scudder, John Arnold 
►{•Sears, John, Jr. 

Seipp, William Conrad 
o Shaw, Gilbert B. 
►{•Sheahan, James Washington 
►{•Sherwood, Henry Martyn 
►{•Shipman, Stephen V. 
o Shortall, John George 

Shortall, John Louis 



►{•Small, Edward A. 
►{•Smallwood, William A. 
►{•Smith, Charles Gilman 
o Smith, Charles Mather 

Smith, Delavan 

Smith, Frederick Augustus 

Smith, Frederick Belcher 
►{•Smith, George Washington 

Smith, Orson 
►{•Smith, Solomon Albert 
o Smith, T. H. 
►{•Smith, William Henry 

Snow, Helen E. 
o Soper, Alexander C. 
o Southwell, Henry E. 
o Spaulding, Henry Abiram 
►{•Spencer, Franklin Fayette 

Spoor, John Alden 

Sprague, Albert Arnold 
o Sprague, Otho Sylvester Arnold 
►{•Stafford, John Francis 
►{•Stanton, George E. 
►{•Stark, James Landon 
o Starkweather, Frank H. 
o Starkweather, Ralph Edward 
►{•Stein, Charles 
►{•Stickney, Edward Swan 
►{•Stickney, Elizabeth Hammond 
►{•Stockton, Joseph 
o Stone, Elizabeth A. Yager 
o Stone, Melville Elijah 
►{•Strong, William Emerson 
o Stryker, Melancthon Woolsey 
o Sturges, Frank 
►{•Sturges, George 
►{•Sturges, Mary Delafield 
o Sturges, Shelton 
►{•Swing, David 
o Talbott, Elisha H. 
►{•Talcott, Edward Benton 
o Taylor, Thomas, Jr. 
o Thatcher, John M. 
►{•Thompson, John Lf.verett 
►{•Tilton, Lucian 
►{•Tilton, Lucretia Jane 
►{•Tinkham, Edward Islay 

Ton, Cornelius J. 

Turck, Fenton B. 
►{•Turner, Voluntine C 

Tuttle, Frederick Bulkley 



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CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 



Annual Members — Continued 



»{«Tyrrell, John A. 
►{•Underwood, John Milton 
►{"VanNortwick, William M. 
►{"Vocke, William 

Wacker, Charles Henry 
►{"Wadsworth, Francis L. 
o Wait, Horatio Loomis 
o Walker, Charles Cobb 

Walker, Elia Marsh 

Walker, Henry H. 
►{"Walker, James Monroe 

Walker, William Bentley 

Walsh, James 
o Walsh, John Richard 
►{"Warren, John Esaias 
►{•Washburne, Elihu Benjamin 
o Washburne, Hempstead 

Watkins, Elias Marvin 
o Watkins, Vine A. 
o Watson, George 

Weber, Herman 
►{«Webster, George 
►{"Webster, Joseph Dana 



Wegg, David Spencer 
o Welch, Fletcher G. 
►{•Welling, John Calvin 

Wells, Frederick Latimer 
►{"Wheeler, George Henry 
►{"Wheeler, Hiram 
o White, Horace 
o Williams, Charles E. 
o Williams, Francis B. 
o Williams, John Marshall 
►{"Williams, Norman 
o Williams, Sidney 
►{"Williams, Simeon B. 
►{"Willing, Frances Skinner 

Wii.marth, Mary Jane Hawes 
o Wilson, Benjamin M. 

Wilson, John P. 
o Wilson, William J. 

Winston, Frederick Seymoir 

Wrenn, John Henry 
o Young, George W. 
o Young, James R. 
o Young, Kimball 



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219 



HONORARY MEMBERS 



Adams, Charles Francis 
•{•Arnold, Samuel Greene 
►{"Bancroft, George 
►{•Bissell, William H. 
►{"Blodgett, Henry Williams 
ifBsAYMAN, Mason 
►{"Breese, Sidney 
►{•Bright, John 
►{•Cass, Lewis 
►{•Cobden, Richard 
►{•Coles, Edward 
►{"Craig, Isaac 

Cullom, Shelby Moore 
►{•Douglas, Stephen Arnold 

Draper, Andrew Sloan 
►{"Drummond, Thomas 
►{"Everett, Edward 
►{"Faillon, Michel Etienne 
►{"Faribault, George Bartholomew 
►{"Foley, Thomas 
►{"Franklin, Jane Griffin, Lady 
►{"Garneau, Franqois Xavier 
4«Gary, Joseph Easton 
Girouard, Desire 
Guthrie, Ossian 
•{"Harris, Samuel Smith 
4«Holls, George Frederick William 
►{"Hubbard, Gurdon Saltonstall 
James, Edmund Janes 
Jameson, John Franklin 
Jones, Fernando 
►{•King, David 
►{"Kinzie, Juliette A. Magill 



►{•Kohl, Johann Georg 
►{"Lincoln, Abraham 
►{•McLaren, William Edward 
►{"McMullen, John 
►{"Margry, Pierre 
►{•Maury, Matthew Fontaine 
►{•Mosher, Charles Delavan 
►{"Motley, John Lothrop 

•{"Newcastle, Henry Pelham Clinton 

Duke of 
►{"Nolte, Frederick 
►{"Oglesby, Richard James 
►{•Parker, Peter 
►{"Poole, William Frederick 
►{"Powers, Horatio Nelson 
►{•Prescott, William Hickling 
►{"Reynolds, John 
►{"Rogers, Charles 
►{"Savage, James 
►{"Shaw, Henry 

Smith, Goldwin 
►{•Sparks, Jared 
Stevenson, Adlai Ewing 
Stone, William Leete, Jr. 
►{"Sumner, Charles 
►{"Trumbull, Lyman 
►{"Walker, James Barr 
►{"Ward, Samuel Dexter 

Whitehouse, Frederic Cope 
►{•Winthrop, Robert Charles 
►{"Yates, Richard 
►{•Young, Sir John, Baron Lisgar 



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ASSOCIATE MEMBERS 



►{"Ambler, John C. 
►{•Andrews, Edmund 
o Baumaxn, Frederick 
»J«Beve, William 
o Briggs, Samuel A. 
o Brown, Stephen F. 
o Brown, William S. 
o Burroughs, Chaki.es J. 
►J«Burton, Stiles 
►{"Carpenter, Philo 
►{"Carter, Artemus 
►{"Carter, Thomas Butler 
►{•Chickering, John W. 
►{"Church, Thomas 
►{"Clapp, James 
o Clarke, John L. 
o Cooley, Francis B. 
o Cragin, Edward F. 
o Critchell, Robert S. 
►{"Cushing, Nathaniel Sawyer 
o Daniels, Edward 
►{"Davis, Hasbrouck 
4«Dole, George Washington 
►{<Dore, John Clark 
►{"Drew, George C 
►{"Farnsworth, John Franklin 
o Fessenden, Charles N. 
►{"Forrest, Thomas Lawrence 
►{«Hall, Amos T. 
4«Herrick, Elijah Ward 
o Higginson, Stephen C. 
►{"Hill, Horatio 
►{"Holden, Charles Newton 
o Hopewell, Charles 



►{"Hugunin, James Robert 

►{•Hunt, Charles Henry 

4«James, Benjamin Franklin 

►{"James, Josiah Levitt 

►{"Lake, David J. 

o Leake, Joseph B. 

►{"Lowther, Thomas D. 

►{"Lull, Oliver R. W. 

►{"McClellan, George Brinton 

o Mather, Hiram F. 

o nleuwenkamp, lobertus j. j. 

►{"O'Donoghue, Margaret Maria 

►{"Olmsted, Lucius D. 

o Otis, Ephraim A. 

►{"Palmer, Percy W. 

o Poole, Isaac A. 

o Saltonstall, Francis G. 

►{"Schneider, George 

►{"Sexton, James A. 

►{"Shuman, Andrew 

►{"Smith, Henry 

4<Sturges, Solomon 

o Taft, Levi B. 

►{"Tucker, Henry 

►{"Waller, James Breckenridge 

o Ward, Ephraim 

►{"Waughop, John Wesley 

►{"White, Julius 

►{"Whitney, William 

o Wilkins, John Edward 

►{"WlLLARD, ELISHA WHEELER 

o Willett, James R. 

o Windiate, Alfred W. 

o Wright, Augustine Webster 



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CORRESPONDING MEMEERS 



Alvord, Clarence Walworth 

Anderson, Henry C. L. 
►{•Andreas, Alfred T. 

Appleton, Edward Dale 
►{"Armstrong, Perry Austin 
►{"Armstrong, Thomas H. 
►{•Asbury, Henry 
►{•Atwater, Elizabeth Emerson 
►{•Atwater, Samuel Tyler 
►{•Baird, Henry Samuel 
►{"Baker, David Jewett 

Baker, George Hall 
►{•Bannister, Henry 
►{"Barry, John Stetson 
►{•Bartlett, John Russell 

Barton, Edmund Mills 

Baskin, Oliver Lawrence 
►{•Beckwith, Hiram Williams 

Beer, William 

Beers, John Hobart 
►{•Blanchard, Rufus 

Bonbright, Daniel 

Bond, Charles Frederick 

Bond, Edward Rogers 

Bond, Mary Esther 

Bond, Shadrach Cuthbert 

Bond, Thomas William 

Boss, Henry Rush 

Bourland, Benjamin Langford Todd 
►{«Bowman, Jonathan 
►{•Bradlee, Caleb Davis 
►{•Brink, Wesley Raymond 
►{•Brooks, Charles 
►{•Brown, Harriet C. Seward 
►{•Browning, Orvii.le Hickman 

Bruwaert, Edmond 

Buckley, Thomas 

Burke, John Crysostom 

Burnham, John Howard 

Bushnell, David Ives 
►{•Calhoun, Pamela C. Hathaway 

Campbell, Charles Bishop 
►{•Cantelo, Francis 
►{•Carr, Maria Graham 
4«Caton, John Dean 

Chapman, Charles C. 
Chapman, Frank M. 



Chetlain, Augustus Louis 

Chouteau, Pierre 
►{•Churchill, George 
►{•Clark, John A. 
►{•Clarke, Samuel Clarke 
►{•Collet, Oscar W. A. 
►{•Conant, Augustus Hammond 
►{•Corkran, William 
►{•Cornell, Ezra 

Cox, Isaac Joslin 

Crane, Frank W. 
►{•Dawson, Henry Barton 

DePeyster, John Watts 

DeWolf, Edward P. 
►{•DeWolf, William Frederick 

Doughty, Arthur G. 
►{•Douglas, Charles H. G. 

Douglas, Walter Bond 
►{•Draper, Lyman Copeland 

Drennan, Daniel Ogii.vie 
►{•Drowne, Henry T. 

Dunn, Jacob Piatt, Jr. 

Durrett, Reuben Thomas 
►{•Durrie, Daniel Steele 

Eastman, Francis Ambrose 
►{•Eastman, Zebina 
►{•Eaton, Joseph Horace 
►{•Edwards, Benjamin Stevenson 
►{•Edwards, Ninian Wirt 
►{•Emery, Samuel Hopkins 

Felsenthal, Bernhard 
►{•Felton, Cornelius Conway 
►{•Fergus, Robert 

Fertig, James Walter 
►{•Flower, George 
►{•Force, Peter 
►{•Fouke, Jacob 

Franklin, Marian Scott 

Gale, William Henry 

Gardiner, Asa Bird 
►{•Gillespie, Joseph 
►{•Gilpin, Charles 
►{•Gilpin, Richard Arthington 

Goodman, Edward 

Gordon, Eleanor Kinzie 
Gosselin, A. E. 
►{•Graham, Albert A. 



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►{.Graham, James Duncan 
►{.Gray, James 

Greeley, Samuel Sewell 

Green, Samuel Abbott 

Greene, Evarts Boutell 

Grover, Frank Reed 
.{.Hager, Rose F. 
•{.Haines, Elijah Middlebrook 
►{.Hall, James 

Harden, William 
►{.Harlow, George Henry 
►{.Harmer, Robert J. 

Harpel, Charles Spencer 
►{.Hatch, Ozias Mather 
.{.Haven, Samuel Foster 

Hayes, Harriet Hayden 

Head, William Richard 
►{.Henry, Joseph 
►{.Hesler, Alexander 
►{.Hewes, George 
►{.Hickcox, John Howard 
►{.Higginson, George M. 
►{.Hildreth, Richard 
►{.Hill, Henry H. 
►{.Hoyt, J. W. 

Hubbard, Adolphus Skinner 
►{.Hubbard, Edwin 

Hubbard, Elijah Kent 
►{.Hubbard, Laura M. 

Hull, Horace 
►{.Hunter, Charles W. 
►{.Hunter, Joseph 
►{.Hurlbut, Henry Higgins 

Isham, William Bradley 
►{.James, Edwin 

James, James Alton 

Jones, Arthur Edwards 
►{.Jones, Gabriel S. 

Kelton, Dwight H. 
►{.Kimball, William Hazen 

Kinney, Henry Clay 
►{.Knapp, Arthur Mason 
►{.Knapp, George S. 

Kohlsaat, Herman Henry 
►{.Lane, Ebenezer 
►{.Lapham, Increase Allen 
►{.Leavitt, Joseph P. 

Leonard, Edward Francke 
►{.Leverett, Washington 



Lewis, Benjamin F. 
►{.Lippincott, Charles E. 
►{.Lippincott, Thomas 

Long, John Turner 
►{.Long, Stephen Harriman 
►{.Loomis, Henry 
►{.Ludlam, Anthony Johnson 

McClurg, Gilbert 

McClurg, Virginia Donaghf. 

McCord, David Ross 
►{.McCulloch, David 

McGee, W J 

McGovern, James J. 
►{.McMasters, Sterling Young 
►{.Ma'rsh, George Perkins 

Martin, Joseph Stanley 
►{.Meacham, Eliza Hoyt 

Meese, William Augustus 

Menard, Peter Abijah 
►{.Metzger, Ferderick 
►{.Miller, Anson S. 

Mills, William C. 

Mitchell, William Arthur Right 
►{.Mixer, A. H. 
►{.Moore, George Henry 
►{.O'Callaghan, Edmund Bailey 
►{.Olmstead, Lemuel G. 

Onahan, William James 

O'Shaughnessy, Thomas A. 

Page, Walter Hines 

Parker, Edward Jarvis 
►{.Parker, Nathan Howe 
►{.Parkman, Francis 
►{.Patterson, Robert Wilson 
►{.Peck, John Mason 

Peet, Stephen Denison 
►{.Perrin, William H. 
►{.Perry, Amos 

Peterson, Paul Christian 

Petitclere, Emma L. 

Phillimore, William P. W. 
►{.Pickering, William 
►{.Prickett, George Washington 

Putnam, Elizabeth Duncan 
►{.Putnam, William Clement 

Radebaugh, William 

Redmond, Lily Meldrum 

Rose, James Alexander 
►{.Rosenthal, Julius 



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Corresponding Members — Continued 



►{•Russell, John 
►{•Ryder, William Henry 

►{"SCHOOLCRAFT, HENRY RoWE 

►{.Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander de 
.{■Shaffer, John Wilson 
►{•Shannon, John R. 
.{•Shipman, George Elias 

Smith, John Corson 

Smith, Perry Hiram, Jr. 
•{•Smith, Robert 

Smith, Valentine 

Sparks, Edwin Erle 

Steward, John Fletcher 
►{•Stone, Ann Elizabeth 

Swearingen, James Strode 
•{•Swift, William Henry 
►{•Tenney, Harriet A. 

Thacher, Edward Strode 

Thwaites, Reuben Gold 

Tillinghast, Caleb Benjamin 
•{•Todd, Alpheus 
►{■Unonius, Gustaf 



Upton, George Putnam 

Van Name, Addison 

Walker, Edwin Sawyer 
•{■Wallin, Thomas Stronginthearm 
i{«Ward, Thomas A. M. 
►{•Ward, Townsend 
•{•Warren, Hooper 
•{■Waterman, James Sears 

Watson, Eliza Lucretia Bond 
►{"Watson, Winslow Cossoul 

Wells, Albert Emory 
•{•Wells, William Harvey 
•{•Whipple, Henry Benjamin 

Whistler, Garland Nelson 

Willard, Samuel 
►{"Williams, John Fletcher 
►{•Wilson, Charles Lush 

Wilson, James Grant 
•{•Wilson, John McNeil 

Wood, James Whistler 
•{•Woodruff, Robert J. 



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CHICAGO HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

1907-1908 



PRESIDENT 

FRANKLIN H. HEAD 

VICE-PRESIDENTS 

Thomas Dent Lambert Tree 

treasurer 
Orson Smith 

LIBRARIAN 

Caroline M. McIlvaine 

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 

Franklin H. Head, Chairman, ex officio 

Term Ending Nov., 1908 Term Ending Nov., 1909 

Samuel H. Kerfoot, jr. Otto L. Schmidt 

Joseph T. Bowen Walter C. Newberry 

Term Ending Nov., 1910 Term Ending Nov., 1911 

George Merryweather Charles F. Gunther 

William A. Fuller John P. Wilson 



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